TBILISI, DFWatch — One of the controversial cuts Prime Minister Ivanishvili wants to make in next year’s budget is to reduce funding for Georgia’s National Security Council – which had a central role in protecting the country in the 2008 war – from USD 15 million
Mari Nikuradze
Behind the battle lines of a miners' strike
TBILISI, DFWatch — The miners in Georgia are not giving up as they enter their fourth week of protest in the village Chiatura.
More than 3600 workers demand a substantial pay rise and improvement in their slave-like working conditions. They started protesting
Chiatura miners on strike descend on Tbilisi
TBILISI, DFWatch — Workers in the mining town Chiatura are keeping up a several weeks’ long protest. Part of them have moved to the capital to rally outside government bodies and the owning company’s offices.
The parliamentary election gave hope to workers all over
More than 700 prisoners to be released by late November
Tbilisi, DF Watch – Georgia’s new prison minister
says the law about amnesty may come into force before November 23, and may apply to more than 700 prisoners, but he avoided specifying exactly how many prisoners may be released.
Sozar Subari, Georgia’s
Government considers planned new city Lazika
TBILISI, DFWatch — The new government has still not decided whether to implement Saakashvili’s idea of building a completely new city Lazika in Georgia.
The new government have different ideas about the plan to build a city with half a million people on the Black
New Georgian government approved
TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgia’s eighth parliament has declared trust in the new government by 88 votes against 54.
There are 150 seats in the parliament. Georgian Dream is in majority with 85 seats, the rest og seats belong to the National Movement, the former ruling
New ombudsman may be chosen today
TBILISI, DFWatch — Thursday parliament will approve the new government presented by the Georgian Dream coalition.
Parliament might also approve the new public defender, whose candidacy has been subject to discussion since the election result first became known.
'Food, not bombs' event held in Tbilisi
TBILISI, DFWatch — A group of volunteer youth in Tbilisi decided to organize a charity event in the city internationally known as Food Not Bombs.
Food which cannot be sold is gathered from grocery stores, restaurants, bakeries and markets, and is handed out to people
Saakashvili offers Ivanishvili Georgian citizenship
TBILISI, DFWatch — President Mikheil Saakashvili today offered Georgian citizenship to the future prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili.
October 2011, the former businessman wrote in an open letter that he was planning to go into politics and change the government through
EU ambassador optimistic about Georgia's future
TBILISI, DFWatch — The EU ambassador to Georgia thinks the ongoing process of transfer of power is another test for Georgia, which will be successfully passed.
Georgia’s National Platform, the largest union of local non-government organizations (NGOs) with support from